The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-12-17
ID Who Are You?

a. Who Are You!
do not mean as to name, but who
are you as one of the great company of
men and women placed here to BE
something? Are you one of our work
ers, helpers, uplifters? If you are not,
do you not think you might be?
g. Where Do You Live?
l am not asking in what house you
eat and sleep, but in what house do you
live? Is it no larger than the house
you rent, or is it such a palace Of the
soul as God meant us all to live in?
Have you given to its building some
sense of things beautiful, some use of
pure things and true? Have you
brought to it the master builders skill
of earnestness and faithful endeavor?
Can you and L not help each other
build in some such way?
(3) What is Your Income!
do not mean in dollars and cents;
but what comes in to you through all
the countless ways by which our lives
may be enriched? What cheer and
help are yours each year from noble
thoughts and Unselfish aims? What
do you receive each year through open
ness Of heart and mind to all uplifting
influences? What treasures do you
lay up every year of good deeds done
and manhood's lesson learned? Shall
not you and thus strive to grow rich
together?
a. How Do You Spend it?
Just for your own growth and ripen-
ing, or as the sun eXpends its warmth
and light, helping to increase and ripen
other lives? May not every better
thought you cherish, and every higher
duty you perform, be made an inspira-
tion and encouragement to help some
other bravely think or do? Shall we not
seek out ways together by which to
share the income of our mind and
hearts with others, and by our infu-
ence make the world little better?
o. What is Your Business?
Is it not larger than the little circle
of your daily tolls? Is it not your own
and your fellOwman's best welfare? Is
not making the world happier, and
sweeter and more excellent, your busi-
ness? Is not the very utmost you can
do, by your own example and influence,
to uplift this community, your busi-
ness2 Is not an earnest taking hold
with us, or with some others, for right
eousness and religion, your business?
g. Are You Insured2
That is, against mean and misera-
BILE old age? Are you so living that no
loss of money can deprive you of your
all? Are you laying up in mind and
heart enough for when your strength
and heart shall fail? Are you insuring
for yourself fund of trustfulness and
hope that shall render your declining
years the richest of your life2
ca How DO You Feel!
mean how do you feel concerning
the great problems which press upon
us for our deepest thoughtfulness?
How do you feel about those eager
cries for light and encouragement and
comfort which humanity lifts up? Do
you feel dull indifference, a heartless
carelessness? Or do you not feel that
in the existence of a God above us,
that in the mission of a Jesus Christ
among us, that in the stretching on of
life beyond this little span of it we see
on earth, there should be sought that
needed light and comfort? Should you
not join with some of us in seeking it?
(S) What Do You Think!
Do you think that the old-time an
swers to our cry for light are true
enough or good enough to help us as
they ought to do? Do you think this
world belongs to God or not? Do you
think God Overrules the lives of men
for everlasting good or everlasting i'll?
Do you think God grows weary, or will
he not seek his own until he finds
them? Do you think that Jesus came
W ulC anu bCal a hClldlbb tNSttuL Ol us,
or that he LIVED and died for our
sakes, that through him we might learn
to live? Do you not think that God is
the Father Of us, one and all? Ii so.
then are not you his child, owing him
a child's aft ctiOn and obedience?
o. What Are You Going To Do
About Ir2
Are you going to throw this sheet
away, and with iC all the better
thoughts and impulses which have
come 10 you in answering its questionsg
Or will you not resolve at once to DO
something? viii you not join hands
with those who are striving to make
religion "A real help to men2 VIII YOU
not seek fellowship with those who aim
to make the love of God more plain,
the brotherhood of Jesus nearer and
dearer to the hearts of men. aud the
way of life less hard for us To find and
less tOrbidding when we lind itY
1O) Why Not!
Having thought this matter over
honestly, as a true man should. WHY
not come with us and lend a hand
Why not come and see how earnestly
our church is trying To fulfill its highest
mission in this neighborhOOd? Why
not come and learn what helpful fel-
lOwshlp we have for you i'm our church,
Why not come and do your patt i'm
making our ministry the great, true,
blessed power i'm our midst and i'm the